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Discover OSE inGÉ and take part in this innovative support program for CPGE students

Publication Date

11 July 2025

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ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation

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Diversity program

Equal opportunities

OSE inGÉ in a nutshell

OSE inGÉ aims to promote student diversity (social, cultural, territorial and gender) in access to the Grandes Ecoles and the world of engineering. The scheme is aimed at female students and/or those on grants throughout their CPGE course, to help them build their plans for the future and develop their ambitions. It helps to combat self-censorship, build self-confidence and encourage the development of all potential and talent.

The commitments of the scheme

Support students throughout their CPGE years, right up to the competitive entrance exams
Guide them in developing their career plans and aspirations
Help them prepare for the oral exams

Help them to gain a better understanding of the world of the grandes écoles, scientific careers and the world of engineering
Encourage them to discover and exploit their full potential
Help them with the logistics of taking the orals

Key figures

In 2022-2023: 42 first-year CPGE science students from 3 Toulouse high schools and 42 alumni mentors!

In 2023-2024: 30 second-year CPGE students and 49 first-year CPGE students from 6 high schools in Toulouse, 76 alumni mentors!

In 2024-2025: 44 second-year CPGE students and 70 students from the Toulouse and Montpellier academies, nearly 100 alumni mentors!

In 2025-2026: 60 second-year CPGE students and 70 students from the Toulouse and Montpellier academies, nearly 120 alumni mentors!

Our goal by 2026: to have supported 250 students from the time they start CPGE to the time they pass their competitive entrance exams!

The programme

Tailor-made mentoring

Students receive personalised, one-to-one support from an alumni mentor, depending on their availability and needs. They are supported right up to the competitive entrance exams by an alumnus of one of the schools involved who, thanks to his or her experience, support and listening skills, helps them to answer their questions and confirm their choices. The mentors receive training from experts to provide the best possible support for CPGE students under this scheme.

Immersion courses on campus

During their 2 years of CPGE, students are welcomed on campus four times. These placements are an opportunity to :

discover the campuses of higher education establishments,
talk to former CPGE students and professionals with inspiring backgrounds,
meet their mentors
consolidate their knowledge and
learn how to manage their CPGE years more effectively.

One-off initiatives

Once a year, an evening meeting with professionals is organised at each partner school.

7 partner high schools for 2024-2025

For this new academic year, we are continuing our commitment by opening 70 places in 2025 to first-year CPGE students from 7 schools in the Toulouse and Montpellier academies:

Lycées Déodat de Séverac, Pierre de Fermat and Bellevue in Toulouse,
Lycées Théophile Gautier and Jean Dupuy in Tarbes,
Lycée Joffre in Montpellier,
Lycée Alfonse Daudet in Nîmes

In addition to OSE inGÉ, today OSE l’ISAE-SUPAERO also means every year: 1,100 secondary school pupils benefiting, 36 schools in the Toulouse and Montpellier academies, more than 120 ISAE-SUPAERO students volunteering, more than 2,500 secondary school pupils met, and numerous projects.

It was Supaero that gave me my wings. Giving these young people a chance and giving them a little extra motivation is the best thing we can do.

Thomas Pesquet S2001 and sponsor of the ISAE-SUPAERO OSE programme

Ose Ingé programme: Mentor-Mentee interview

Publication Date

31 August 2023

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Institute

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Diversity program

Equal opportunities

Meeting with Tristana Bujia and Jean-Baptiste Brun

Can you introduce yourself?

Tristana: My name is Tristana and I’m 19. I’m currently doing a preparatory course in Physics, Chemistry and Engineering Sciences (PCSI) and in my second year I’m going to do a PC. I want to become an engineer (probably in chemistry).

Jean-Baptiste: I’m 30 years old and graduated from ISAE-SUPAERO in 2016 after two years of preparatory classes in MP at Lycée Charlemagne, Paris 4E. In engineering school, I chose to focus on energy, transport and the environment. At the end of my studies, I wanted to get away from the isolation of engineering school and work as close as possible to industrial production, and that’s what I did when I joined Air France Industries, the entity in charge of aircraft maintenance for Air France and its customers.

Why did you want to take part in the OSE Ingé scheme?

Tristana: I was offered the chance to take part in this programme and I thought it would be a great opportunity to meet engineers, as I didn’t have any around me. What’s more, we had the chance to visit an engineering school as well as Jean-Baptiste’s workplace to see what his job might be like. I wanted to be able to talk to someone who had followed a similar career path to the one I want to follow.

Jean-Baptiste: I’ve been very lucky throughout my time at school to be encouraged, guided and also well informed about the different choices I’ve had to make, and it’s only fair that I should be able to offer support, listen and share my experiences with students who are following a similar path and may be experiencing the same doubts and even frustrations. The preparatory classes are two years that are rich intellectually but can be emotionally trying and support, however occasional, can make more difference than an extra hour spent on a physics exercise. The involvement I’ve had allows me to be useful, I hope, to people who may need it. The idea wasn’t to be a performance coach to boost grades or to define a strategy for the different deadlines of the two years, but rather to be a listening ear and unfailing support, whether to aim for one of the top-ranked schools or to change direction if the preparatory classes weren’t suitable.

Can you describe your work together?

Tristana: We don’t really work together because the aim is not to revise courses. We’ve seen each other just under once a month this year to discuss our feelings about the preparatory classes and we’ve exchanged ideas on various subjects, such as how the preparatory classes work and how they’re organised, life in engineering school, ecology, etc.

Jean-Baptiste: The first thing was to define a way of working between us, even if it meant adjusting it. We saw each other physically or virtually once every two months or so, and exchanged messages from time to time, although it was difficult to be present and available without being intrusive, because that’s the last thing I would have wanted in his place. During these meetings, we talked about her daily life, her difficulties, the life of a student in a preparatory class. I’d share my memories of my two years of preparatory classes, but I’d also take care to talk about lighter subjects. At the same time, I tried to help out in other ways, such as finding contacts for the TIPE or organising a visit to my workplace with other mentees and classmates.

What did you learn from the Ose Ingé scheme?

Tristana: I learnt how the preparatory engineering school system works and visiting my mentor’s workplace gave me a better idea of what was possible after my studies. It’s an interesting system that gives you a different view from that of your teachers or specialisms, because the mentor has a fresher experience with a certain distance and experience of the world of work.

Jean-Baptiste: I’m not in the best position to answer that question, as I only had a support role. However, I think I found the right position and established a relationship of trust with Tristana. If that’s the case and our discussions have helped her at least once, hopefully more, then it’s been a success. The scheme is positive because of the opportunities it offers students for support and for sharing experiences. It’s also a challenge for the mentors, most of whom have a classic engineer’s mentality of trying to solve problems. And sometimes, as mentors, we don’t have to provide solutions, but simply listen and share our experience. It’s not very natural, but it happens in the end. If I had to do it all over again, I’d do it without hesitation.

What is your best memory?

Tristana: My best memory was visiting Jean-Baptiste’s workplace and also the day when we played sport at the CREPS with all the mentees and a few mentors.

Jean-Baptiste: I remember a session in the first half of the year where I had the impression that the discussion helped to play down the situation Tristana was in and to gain a bit of perspective. She didn’t have all the keys to success in the prep school after that but I think she was able to think about something else and have a bit of peace of mind, for a few days or a few hours. And that’s already a good start.

OSE L’ISAE-SUPAERO: a long-term commitment

Publication Date

13 September 2021

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Institute

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Diversity program

Sustainability

PICs to find solutions

As part of the Innovation and Creativity Projects (PIC) to be carried out by first-year students at ISAE-SUPAERO, a number of initiatives have been launched in schools in the Toulouse Academy:

PIC “light pollution” carried out in the Antoine Pons secondary school (Chalabre) and the Mirepoix secondary school. Several explanatory sessions and brainstorming sessions were held to try and find solutions to light pollution in their respective communes, such as switching off certain streetlights in places that are not used in the evening, and running an awareness-raising campaign in the communes.
Floating wind turbine” PIC offered to a class from Tournefeuille high school. The students were able to learn from their experience how to stabilise the buoyancy of a model wind turbine at sea.
Greenhouse construction” PIC at Hubertine Auclert secondary school in Toulouse. This project, which began two years ago, was aimed at 4th year students who built a garden in the first year, with the help of students from ISAE-SUPAERO, and then built the greenhouse in the second year. This greenhouse can be used by all secondary school pupils and teachers.
Discover the work of the young people in pictures
A project to build a wind turbine also took place in the same school with a class of 5th graders. Students from the “SupaeroForEarth” student association at ISAE-SUPAERO accompanied the pupils. See the construction of the mini-wind turbine
PIC “raising awareness of sustainable development” at the Louis Pasteur secondary school in Lavelanet and the Gorge Sand secondary school in Toulouse, with the production of a Fresque du climat game using recycled paper. The youngsters discovered the Climate Fresco game by making the support themselves.

The Climate Fresk: a key awareness-raising tool

The climate fresk is a scientific, collaborative and creative workshop designed to raise awareness of climate change in a fun way. It’s educational, enabling a team to discover in a short space of time how the climate works, and the causes and consequences of climate change.

Taking part in this workshop raises awareness of the complexity of climate change, gives an overview of this vast issue and provides the keys to understanding how to take effective action, both collectively and individually.

6 climate fresks were created in various schools in the Toulouse Academy: Collège Hubertine Auclert (Toulouse), Collège Jean Jaurès (Colomiers), Cité scolaire (Mirepoix), Centre Jean Lagarde (Toulouse), Collège George Sand (Toulouse), Collège Louis Pasteur (Graulhet).

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